This was tied for the most popular topic for us to write about in a mini straw poll of the
daily beemail
readers.
I decided to blog it instead because a surprising number of people have proposed this
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In which Danny dispenses advice on beeminding your bucket list.
This first came up in the context of
maniac weeks
but don’t stop reading if you think those are idiotic!
It’s about how to make sure... »

Do you have trouble eating an appropriate amount of vegetables? Do you repeatedly buy them, then watch them wither and decay, feeling guilty about the waste of money and the impact on your health? Do you find healthy eating to be overwhelmingly complicated? I was like that for years. But for exactly one thousand days today, I have... »

A simple-seeming feature is now live: You can set custom deadlines on goals!
Until now, you’ve had till midnight every day to make sure you’re safely on Beeminder’s yellow brick road.
(Or for
non-autodata
goals you’ve had a grace period... »

Once in a while someone tries to set up a yellow brick road where the steepness automatically increases by, say, 10% each week.
It seems like a so-called exponential road (available with custom goals, which is one of the
Bee... »

Last week Danny took our children to Canada while I attempted a
Nick Winter style maniac week.
It was delightful, though less epic than its namesake.
Nonetheless it was a massively productive work week for me compared to my average.
Here’s a time-lapse video of me working.
So fascinating!
Look... »

Here’s a suggestion we hear from time to time:
“Let me mind both sides of the Yellow Brick Road!”
For example, maybe you want to neither sleep too much nor too little.
Conceptually you could do this with a goal that was a combination of
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Akrasia

Akrasia (ancient Greek ἀκρασία, "lacking command over oneself") is the state of acting against one's better judgment, not doing what one genuinely wants to do. It encompasses procrastination, lack of self-control, lack of follow-through, and any kind of addictive behavior.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Akrasia